[Virtualacorn-list] Odd problems with VARPC on a Mac, version 2

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

In message of 12 Nov, Tricia Garner <tricia at orchid-squad.org.uk> wrote:

> On 12 Nov, in article <c99b14fd4f.tim at southfarm.plus.com>,
>   Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at powys.org> wrote:

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> >   10. A curious problem has arisen with POPstar on Virtual Acorn. 
> >      It only appears for e-mails to be downloaded that are above
> >      the size limit I have set.  Further it only occurs for such
> >      files that are waiting when I fire up VA; if they appear after
> >      start-up and the first fetch there is no problem.  What
> >      happens is that I get from POPstar a warning message that an
> >      over-large e-mail is on the server; I tell it to download the
> >      e-mail and then I simply cannot find same.  I have turned full
> >      error-reporting on for POPstar and it shows that a DELE
> >      command is in fact issued by POPstar.  This is a feature of
> >      running under VA and I have no idea why it happens.
> 
> >      A possible work-around is to use AntiSpam as the fetcher but I
> >      can't get that to work either though assistance is promised.
> 
> >      If I cannot get reliable fetching via any program on Virtual
> >      Acorn I may have to move to Messenger Pro on the Mac, which I
> >      have working fine on one mailing list and a couple of
> >      newsgroups.
> 
> I am using AntiSpam. What seems to be the problem for you?

I have never used or tried Anti-Spam.  I used to use Spam Stamp until,
for inexplicable reasons, it went doolally but by then PlusNet was
providing a very acceptable spam trapping service which I now rely on,
for the better part.

I now have two versions of AntiSpam, the original download from the site
which does not work and a modified version which at least loads onto the
iconbar.  I have a bit of work to do on the configuration to make it do
just the fetching instead of POPstar; I don't really want any files
deleted from Plusnet.  It will be a few days before I can get down to
this.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim at powys.org
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